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Exodus 2 📜 📕 ↷
Birth and Adoption of Moses
1 AFTER these things there came forth a man of the house of Levi, and he took a wife of his own stock.📜💬📚
2 Who conceived, and bare a son: & seeing him a goodly one, hid him three months.📜💬📚
3 And when now she could not conceal him, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and dawbed it with bitume and pitch: and put within it the little infant, and laid him in a sedgy place by the river's brink,📜💬📚
4 his sister standing a far off, and considering the event of the thing.📜💬📚
5 And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to be washed in the river, and her maids walked by the river's brink. Who when she saw the basket in the sedges, she sent one of her handmaids: and when it was brought,📜💬📚
6 opening it, and seeing with it an infant crying, having pity on it, said: This is one of the infants of the Hebrews.📜💬📚
7 To whom the child's sister said: Wilt thou that I go, and call to thee an Hebrew woman, that may nurse the little infant?📜💬📚
8 She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother.📜💬📚
9 To whom Pharao's daughter speaking: Take, quoth she, this child, and nurse him for me: I will give thee thy hire. The woman took and nursed the child: and when he was grown, delivered him to Pharao's daughter.📜💬📚
10 Whom she adopted into the place of a son, and called him Moyses, saying: Because from the water I did take him.📜💬📚
Rejection and Flight of Moses
11 In those days after that Moyses was grown, he went forth to his brethren: and he saw their affliction, and a man that was an AEgyptian striking one of the Hebrews his brethren.📜💬📚
12 And when he had looked about hither and thither, and saw no man present, he struck the AEgyptian, and hid him in the sand.📜💬📚
13 And going forth an other day, he saw two Hebrews brawling; and he said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour?📜💬📚
14 Who answered: Who hath appointed thee Prince and Judge over us? Wilt thou kill me, as yesterday thou didst the AEgyptian? Moyses feared, and said: How is this thing come abroad?📜💬📚
15 And Pharao heard of this talk, and sought to kill Moyses: who flying from his sight, abode in the Land of Madian, and sat beside a well.📜💬📚
16 And the Priest of Madian had seven daughters, which were come to draw water: and when the troughs were filled, they desired to water their father's flocks.📜💬📚
17 The shepherds came upon them, and drove them away: and Moyses arose, and defending the maids, watered their sheep.📜💬📚
18 Who being returned to Raguel their father, he said to them: Why are you come sooner than you were wont?📜💬📚
19 They answered: A certain man an AEgyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds: moreover also he drew water with us, and gave the sheep to drink.📜💬📚
20 But he said: Where is he? Why have you let the man go? Call him that he may eat bread.📜💬📚
21 Therefore Moyses sware that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife:📜💬📚
22 Who bare him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country. And she bare an other, whom he called Eliezer, saying: for the God of my father my helper hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao.📜💬📚
God Hears the Cry of the Israelites
23 But after much time the king of AEgypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry ascended unto God from the works.📜💬📚
24 And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant which he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.📜💬📚
25 And our Lord looked upon the children of Israel and knew them.📜💬📚
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